Today is the day for our Hearthstone Closed Beta patch! This patch also includes the account wipe, so when the servers are available for play once more, you’ll be starting again as if you were a new player. For more information on the wipe itself, please revisit our Account Wipe Incoming blog post, found here. Now, onto the patch notes!

General

The maximum level is now 60, and you can earn XP in any game mode up to max level.

Chat has been rejiggered.

Gold gained in Play mode has changed from 5 gold per 5 wins to 10 gold per 3 wins.

You can now acquire Golden Basic minions at higher experience levels.

Arena rewards now give less dust and more cards.

More gold is guaranteed at 5 & 6 Arena wins.

At 9 Arena wins, you are now guaranteed an extra pack or a Golden card.

The animations for Secrets and Fatigue have been sped up dramatically.

All cards now have flavor text when you view them in your collection.

“Spell Power +1” has been renamed “Spell Damage +1”.

Heroes can be unlocked in any mode (Play/Arena/Practice)

Play, Practice and Friendly Play modes will now default to the custom deck selection UI if you’ve previously created a deck

You can now click on chat bubbles to respond

Social – When your friends complete an Arena run or get a Legendary card in a pack, you’ll be notified so you can tell them, “Grats!”

Quests that required you to win with a class now give you a choice between 2 classes.

Yes that’s 23 Attack / 15 Defense on a creature. I still won though, he had only 3 health left and his creature couldn’t attack my hero. Had one taunt creature, he had to force himself to attack it, then on my turn just used Arcane Shot & Steady Shot to get the win!

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